This is a blog from the administration at CCCOnline for teaching faculty.

Wednesday, December 04, 2013

Game-based Learning Opportunity

Dear Colleagues,

As part of the Immersive and Game Based Learning Faculty
Grant challenge, the CCCS Hackathon Project will be involved with the
Minecraft and More UnSymposium on December6
and 7, 2013.

The Minecraft and More UnSymposium is an online synchronous
tour and discussion of learning using this hugely popular video game. Minecraft that has sold over 12 million
downloads worldwide and in the last 24 hours over 7,000
people have bought the game. Minecraft looks very similar to Legos and allows
players to build and play with cubes in a 3D digital sandbox. It can be played
on a PC, Mac, tablet or Xbox. This sandbox game has two basic modes, creative
and survival.

The educational use of Minecraft has received recent
coverage in the popular press, articles on Minecraft and education have
included:

If you are intrigued or if you would like to learn more
about this game and how it may fit into online and blended education, then
please join us. The Minecraft and More UnSymposium is a two day free online
event on Friday, Dec. 6th
from 4 pm – 8 pm and on Saturday, Dec. 7th from noon – 6 pm. It will include tours in
Minecraft and an ongoing discussion of how it can be used in online and hybrid
education. This discussion will also include the CCCS Hackathon project. These
online sessions will run the gamut from demonstration of game play to serious
curriculum discussions. All sessions will be livestreamed over Google Hangout
on Air on the Games MOOC channel. http://www.youtube.com/gamesmooc